Accessible tourism for people with disabilities
a bibliometric study
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https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v18.2972Keywords:
Accessible tourism, People with disabilities, Bibliometric Study, Bibliometric laws, Integrative Literature ReviewAbstract
This study aims to systematize national and international scientific production on accessible tourism for people with disabilities. The methodology, of a qualitative nature, was designed by means of a Bibliometric Study (BS) - consisting of Lotka's, Bradford's and Zipf's Laws - and an Integrative Literature Review (ILR). Publications up to December 31, 2020 were analyzed, obtaining 162 articles as the corpus of analysis. The theoretical framework includes people with disabilities in the context of accessible tourism. The results demonstrate that academic interest in the subject is recent and not very diverse, but growing. The BS revealed that accessible tourism for people with disabilities is an area of knowledge that is still in the early stages of growth, as production is scattered across many journals, with several authors responsible for few articles. With ILR, it was identified that studies are moving from a perspective of recovery, cure and rehabilitation to one of inclusion, adaptation and participation, overcoming the medical model for the social model of disability. However, the studies are homogeneous and do not represent the heterogeneity of this social group. It also provides a broad and detailed research agenda that will serve as a basis for new empirical studies on the subject.
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